Setting and Mood

Goals: Understanding how setting contributes to mood.

• The term MOOD in literature refers to how the setting of the story makes the reader feel.

• It is the emotional feeling of the place where the events are taking place. 

• Sometimes the mood of the place matches the characters mood and sometimes it is in contrast to it.

• Word choice and the details an author includes help to create the mood of a setting.

Agenda:
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Setting and Mood
Review Great Expectations
Setting and Mood in Your Novels

Setting and Mood:

Let's Look at Great Expectations Again:
#1. Watch Great Expectations clip
#2. Check out these passages

We went into the house by a side door, the great front entrance had two chains across it outside,--and the first thing I noticed was, that the passages were all dark, and that she had left a candle burning there. She took it up, and we went through more passages and up a staircase, and still it was all dark, and only the candle lighted us.

She had not quite finished dressing, for she had but one shoe on,--the other was on the table near her hand,--her veil was but half arranged, her watch and chain were not put on, and some lace for her bosom lay with those trinkets, and with her handkerchief, and gloves, and some flowers, and a Prayer-Book all confusedly heaped about the looking-glass.

Setting and Mood in Your Novels: 

#1. Find a description of setting that creates a specific mood in your novel. 

#2. Create a table (2 wide by 4 down) in your English Journal

#3. In the left column, describe the setting using text evidence.
#4. In the right column, explain what mood the setting creates and why.

Reminders: 
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